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Renterra · 2 months ago

Senior Product Engineer

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$100K/yr - $200K/yr

Renterra is a company focused on delivering effective solutions through fast iteration cycles. They are seeking a Senior Product Engineer to lead and contribute to greenfield projects, develop new features, and ensure a customer-centric approach to product development.

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Responsibilities

Design, Build and Innovate: Lead and contribute to greenfield projects, develop new features and products from scratch

Collaborate Closely: Engineering is a team effort; we produce our best work together. Work closely with our product and support teams to ensure we are solving the right problems

Customer-Centric Development: Have high empathy for our users, consistently seek feedback and iterate on our products to improve their experience. (We go on-site on with customers to see our software in use first-hand)

Business-Minded Decision Making: Make daily decisions on when we should invest in more sound architecture, leverage vendors and integrations or cut corners and scope to deliver functionality to our customers

Optimize and Deliver: Participate in a lean and fast-moving development process that is consistently iterated and improved upon

Report directly to the CTO

Qualification

TypeScriptNext.jsReactAI integrationArchitectural judgmentProduct senseTailwind CSSMaterialUIGitHubEnd-to-end ownershipComfortable with ambiguity

Required

You're a builder who is energized by delivering real value to customers - and seeing your work actively used in the wild

You're AI-forward. You actively use AI tools to move faster and you're excited to integrate AI into product workflows where it meaningfully improves outcomes

You take end-to-end ownership: from understanding a real customer problem, to shaping the solution, to shipping it, and ensuring it succeeds

You are a high-caliber full-stack engineer (Senior/Staff/Principal level) with deep expertise in TypeScript and modern web engineering

You're fluent in core technologies across our stack (see below), and excited to push the boundaries of what great product experiences can be

You bring strong architectural judgment - understanding patterns, tradeoffs, and when to apply rigor vs. when to optimize for speed

You can communicate clearly across technical and non-technical teammates, elevating shared understanding

You have product sense - the intuition to prioritize what matters, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and ship iteratively without compromising long-term quality

You're comfortable operating in ambiguity, adapting approaches quickly as we learn and grow

You have a track record of shipping meaningful product in small, high-velocity teams - work you can point to that made a difference for customers